February 17, 2012 - Biometric Associates, LP, (BAL) the leader in secure wireless communications, announced today that the BLUEARMOR 100 Secure Bluetooth Headset has been approved for use with Android smartphones and tablets by the US Department of Defense.
February 9, 2012 - Fixmo Inc. is the Mobile Risk Management (MRM) company that enables government agencies and enterprises to identify, mitigate and manage the risks associated with the proliferation of mobile devices in the workforce.
February 13, 2012 - New Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has a small window of opportunity to resuscitate the long-stumbling smartphone maker. Analysts and industry partners think Heins, promoted to lead the company late last month, may have only until December to prove his mettle.
February 10, 2012 - When to tighten your grip on business data? Before a breach. How top firms up their vigilance:
• Raise awareness. Company leaders should use a broken-record approach while talking about data security.
February 9, 2012 - As the cybersecurity field continues to grow in popularity and importance, the students in Capitol’s Doctor of Science in Information Assurance program are routinely publishing and presenting their findings for interested audiences.
February 5, 2012 - Fixmo of Sterling appointed Bob Gourley, Wilson Livingood and Arthur Lawrence to the board of advisers.
February 2, 2012 - The White House photo of the day for 31 Jan 2012 is one to remember. It shows proof positive that the megatrend towards a consumerization of IT is not only unstoppable, but is changing enterprises everywhere in very positive ways.
February 1, 2012 - Tyler Lessard heads up Fixmo’s marketing and product strategy group and brings over a decade of experience in wireless technology, mobile apps, business development, alliances and solutions marketing. Prior to joining Fixmo, Tyler was vice president of BlackBerry Global Alliances and Developer Relations at Research In Motion (RIM), where he managed a global team responsible for building and supporting an ecosystem of thousands of wireless app developers and enterprise solution providers on the BlackBerry platform.
January 31, 2012 - Rob Lewis and TechVibes is reporting that ExtremeU has launched a new Toronto based incubator that leverages their experience over the past 3 years. Mark Evans provides additional details that includes “$7-million in funding from Extreme Venture Partners, OMERS Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, BlackBerry Partners Fund and BDC.”
January 26, 2012 - This group of security companies includes several that want to capitalize on technology ideas that were originally devised to serve communities of special interest but could now take on a wider cybersecurity role. Fixmo, for example, has its roots in the National Security Agency where its mobile security makes it possible to run critical applications in sandboxes that are insulated from the rest of the machine, making them less likely to fall victim to malware that might have infected the device.
January 25, 2012 - CorreLog, the leader in software solutions for IT security event correlation, today announced the general availability of CorreLog Enterprise Server 5.1. The new release includes several enhancements to the current offering, most notably the highly anticipated release of CorreLog Normalizer and Database Loader (NDL), a new offering from CorreLog that allows users to configure match patterns and rules to parse complex, unstructured data into a relational database.
January 23, 2012 - A lot is riding on Thorsten Heins, who's been charged with resuscitating stumbling Research in Motion as its new CEO. Heins yesterday replaced controversial RIM co-CEO's Mike Lazarides and Jim Balsillie. Analysts and industry partners think Heins may have only until December to prove his mettle. By then, they say, he must get new BlackBerry 10 smartphones out the door and get Playbook 2 tablet sales off to a good start when they begin shipping starting next month.
January 16, 2012 - Dangers continue to mount for clinicians who download commercial apps for work. A new report by security site Dark Reading warned that growing number of apps share user information with a variety of sources, often unbeknownst to the user.
We reported on this emerging phenomenon last year, but the leaks appear to be getting bigger, rather than smaller with time, according to the Dark Reading report.
January 11, 2012 - A venture capital investment of $23 million landed by Toronto mobile company Fixmo in late 2011 has already seen the company add 10 staff members, according to Fixmo chief marketing officer Tyler Lessard, bringing the total staff to 50.
January 10, 2012 - We’ve recently heard a few big announcements for mobile computing in the military, which has long been blocked by security issues. First, the US Defense Information Systems Agency approved Dell Android 2.2 for use on Department of Defense networks with a few notable limitations. DoD users won’t be able to access either classified data or the Android app store.
January 6, 2012 - We started December with a focus on Big Data by recapping Bob Bob Gourley’s interview at the Enterprise CIO Forum where he explained what Big Data was and what it was good for, highlighting Hadoop as the dominant framework for solutions.
January 4, 2012 - Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you caught yourself sending an email on your BlackBerry® smartphone to an unintended recipient? Or maybe you’ve found that you need an application that intelligently manages your Wi-Fi® connection to conserve battery life. Well, you’re in luck – Fixmo® has just released a new version of their Fixmo Tools application that is designed to address these issues.
January 4, 2012 - Cisco, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Panasonic Security, Videx, Wave Systems and Biometrics Associates Discuss Security Solutions on SecurityStockWatch.com
December 28, 2011 - Many of my posts lately have described the challenge of securing and managing consumer devices brought from home. In the past, I've discussed the products from Good Technologies. I recently polled the CIOs of Massachusetts hospitals and found two other products that are gaining traction - Fixmo and MobileIron.
December 20, 2011 - These days we hear a lot of terms thrown about like the “Consumerization of IT” and “Bring your own device” (BYOD), and “Network health”. This is because corporations are starting to warm up to the idea that maybe if they let you bring in your personal computing devices such as smartphones and tablets, they won’t have to pay to give you one.
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